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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other…
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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it…
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a…
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West…
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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races,…
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small…
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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical…
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese…
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
— Bob Cousy
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While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do.…
— Barack Obama
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I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation…
— Charley Reese
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and…
— William Allen White
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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots…
— Richey Edwards
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My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it,…
— Chris Rock
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Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets…
— Samuel Gompers
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The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.
— William Allen White
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Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will…
— Robert McNamara
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I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris,…
— John Foster Dulles
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I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to…
— Erskine Caldwell
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The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
— Georges Pompidou
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